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Outed CIA agent Valerie Plame says Dick Cheney ruined her career--and she wants him to pay. Plame and her husband Joseph Wilson filed suit last week against the Veep, Karl Rove, I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby and other officials. Here's our brief...
...Plame and Wilson, an ex-diplomat, allege a "conspiracy" among top White House officials to punish them after Wilson exposed flaws in pre-Iraq-war intelligence. They say exposing Plame as a CIA agent jeopardized their safety and invaded their privacy...
Privacy? They posed for Vanity Fair. Their embrace of the limelight could hurt them. But before columnist Robert Novak ran Plame's name, citing White House sources, she was unknown. Said her lawyer Christopher Wolf: "She was dragged into the public square...
...Plame argues that the Rove crew violated her constitutional right to privacy by revealing the nature of her job. But as Volokh points out, in Supreme Court jurisprudence, such privacy violations have involved embarrassing information, like sexual antics or medical conditions. The disclosure of Plame?s occupation may have been illegal, but it was probably not an unconstitutional intrusion on her privacy...
...Which is not to say that the couple has no case. On several of their claims - that ?vindictiveness and illegitimate animus? caused the Administration to treat them differently from others in similar positions, for example, or that the defendants wrongfully disclosed a private fact about Plame - there may be enough ambiguity about what really happened to propel them beyond a motion to dismiss and into discovery, a process that allows each side to demand piles of information from the other. That's a prospect an already shaky White House surely wants to avoid...